Saturday, December 1st
To make acts of penance of all my contradictions, temporal or spiritual pains, as well as all the actions that could displease me is what I call the penance of the moment. – Teresa of St. Augustine
Friday, November 30th
May You be blessed, my God, forever! How obvious it is that You loved me much more than I did myself! How many times, my Lord, have You freed me from so dark a prison, and how often have I put myself in it again against Your will! – St.…
Thursday, November 29th
If you should fall at times don’t be discouraged and stop striving to advance. For even from this fall God will draw out good. -St. Teresa of Avila
Wednesday, November 28th
Turn your eyes upon yourself and look at yourself inwardly, as I have said. You will find your Master; He will not fail you: indeed, the less outward comfort you have, the [much] greater the joy He will give you. He is full of compassion and never fails those who…
Tuesday, November 27th
Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity. – St. Therese
Monday, November 26th
Jesus prefers leaving me in darkness to giving me a false light which would not be Himself. – St. Therese
Sunday, November 25th
I keep thinking of Queen Esther who was taken away from her people precisely because God wanted her to plead with the king on behalf of her nation. I am a very poor and powerless little Esther, but the King who has chosen me is infinitely great and merciful. This…
Saturday, November 24th
Oh Jesus, I feel that if You found a soul feebler than mine- though that’s impossible- You would delight in heaping even greater favors on it, if it abandoned itself with supreme confidence to Your infinite mercy. – St. Therese
Friday, November 23rd
But when souls are worn out from many years of meditation and of having sought this Bridegroom, and most weary of worldly things, they sit under the shadow of Truth, they do not seek their comfort or calm or rest anywhere except where they understand they can truly have it.…
Thursday, November 22nd
The proud person is like a grain of wheat thrown into water: it swells, it gets big. Expose that grain to the fire: it dries up, it burns. The humble soul is like a grain of wheat thrown into the earth: it descends, it hides itself, it disappears, it dies;…